Windhoek
/ˈwɪndhʊk/
"windhoek" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Windhoek” is uncommon English (frequency #60,567 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,567
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city, the capital city of Namibia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-windhoek · Windhoek · English
Windhoek · rank #60,567 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,567
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH winsome
Nearest frequency peer: winsome (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “Windhoek”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- webmaster
webmaster
39,438 corpus weight
- Windhoek
Windhoek
39,434 corpus weight
- winsome
winsome
39,433 corpus weight
- Wintour
Wintour
39,432 corpus weight
- Witwatersra…
Witwatersrand
39,431 corpus weight
- Wodehouse
Wodehouse
39,430 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Windhoek” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Windhoek |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈwɪndhʊk/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,567 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Windhoek” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Windhoek is uncommon English at frequency #60,567 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈwɪndhʊk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city, the capital city of Namibia.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Windhoek in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Afrikaans/Dutch Windhoek, from wind (“wind”) + hoek (“corner, angle”). The correct English form is Windhoek, spelled W-I-N-D-H-O-E-K.
Definition
- 1A city, the capital city of Namibia.
Etymology
Borrowed from Afrikaans/Dutch Windhoek, from wind (“wind”) + hoek (“corner, angle”).
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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